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You'll look back at these comments you're making in 10 years and be embarrassed. Hopefully by then you will have learnt a bit more about being a productive programmer. The language…

That's great that you've discovered you're less productive in Java than Scala. Hopefully you can improve that deficiency in your programming at some point.

If you're held back by boilerplate, you're simply not a very good programmer. You need to learn to read and write code just like you read and write english. Yes there's boilerplate…

It seems like Canada is half way along the awesome scale to Europe.

> You lack the breadth of experience to make this claim. Wake up. You're 23. You're a kid. You've just started programming and think you know everything. You don't.

> To paraphrase a minor celebrity of programming, life is too long to be good at reading every variation of boilerplate. Learning to read code is just like learning to read English…

That won't solve the abysmal coverage and dropped calls enjoyed in the US.

> I have been writing Java since I was 13. I am 23 now. I have been paid for code written in C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, F#, and Python. Woah! You're 23? I bow down to your knowledg…

This isn't an isolated incident though. Their whole business model pretty much is built on the fact that things like this will happen. A lot.

It's still a problem with US carriers. (Other countries have far better carriers and ecosystems than the US) It still absolutely amazes me that you guys usually pay for incoming SM…

> because the article is primarily about problems with the Android ecosystem. IN THE U.S.A. If you want better cellphones with better carriers who don't do stupidly intrusive thing…

More generally, don't use anything on the day of release... Wait a week or 2 for the bugs to be ironed out. Surely we've all learnt that by now...

You cannot kill a language, unless everyone stops using it. The chances of that are nil. But keep on with the hyperbole.

It's all about money and greed. Sad indeedy.

BS. They will know about it, and know that it carries large risks.

> and a bigger problem is that more than any other language I'm familiar with Java suffers from the problem of not being able to see enough ideas in a given amount of source code. …

Yes, the reason is the runtimes for them suck, or aren't needed. If there was a decent runtime for BASIC or COBOL, which gave real world advantages over everything else, I'd switch…

Java does no such thing as "encourages 20,000 line behemoths filled with dross". Bad programmers do. If you're creating several methods that only differ a little bit, you're doing …

I think it is. If people haven't learnt yet that the single most important skill you need as a programmer is being able to read any code, in any language, and take a good guess at …

> Those are the kind of features that are sorely lacking in Java, and that means huge, bloated code bases. No, it doesn't. If you can't write concise Java, you're doing something w…

Well, people want different things. I just want the hammer. New language features are all fun, but unless they actually result in faster execution, or allow you to do things you co…

> The community splintered, the language and platform really lost any ability to maintain momentum. This is the mindset I've never understood. Do you stop using a hammer to bang in…

The more surprising thing is that they seem to genuinely believe they can "block" content. Sorry, the internet doesn't work like that.

The only time I've ever used an optical drive is to re-install the OS. You can pick up a USB DVD drive for next to nothing for those rare times you need it.